5 things we’ll see in the Canvas submissions

There are two weeks to go until the BBC Trust makes its preliminary findings (”emerging conclusions”) on Project Canvas known to the public.

Presumably, like with past consultations, submissions made as part of the consultation  will also be made public at the same time.

Keeping in mind that the submissions aren’t just from companies like Sky or organisations like the DTG, but from members of the public too, in no particular order, below are five themes that will arise across the submissions:

1. Vigorous observations about the project information made publicly available to date being so lacking in detail.
2. Highlighting of the importance of the EPG, coupled with concerns about who/how it will be controlled.
3. From consumers there will be two parts praise for the dismantling of the oppressive regimes of both paid access and current technical trickery in getting VOD to the TV, and one part acrimony at the BBC wasting licence fee payers’ money.
4. Protests that the BBC is reinventing the wheel of IPTV standards & should instead back an existing standards body.
5. Complaints that special interest groups and representative bodies weren’t privately consulted for their opinions before the public consultation.